In case you haven't heard, the Colts have a pretty big game on Saturday.

Andrew Luck and the Colts will take on Patrick Mahomes and the top-seeded Chiefs Saturday afternoon at 4:35 p.m. The Colts come into the game having won 10 of 11, including last weekend's 21-7 win over the Texans in the wild card round.

Here's a roundup of what the experts think about who will come out on top Saturday and advance to the AFC Championship game.

USA Today: It's a split

Of the six staff members who made picks, three had the Colts winning and three had the Chiefs winning. But everyone had the game being decided by one score or less. As far as Colts players to watch: Marlon Mack, Malik Hooker, Denico Autry and Ryan Kelly. Check out the full predictions here.

The NFL's divisional playoff weekend approaches with a scrumptious quartet of games on the menu. With the exception of Eagles-Saints — New Orleans is the most heavily favored team this weekend — our panel of USA TODAY Sports' NFL experts was highly divided regarding the outcomes of the playoffs' second round.

SB Nation: Chiefs 31, Colts 24

SB Nation's Bill Connelly takes a deep dive into both AFC matchups, which you can read here. Here are some of his key points:

The Colts 'don't have any damning weaknesses'

Kansas City’s offense and special teams have been so dominant that they’ve been able to win the most games in the conference despite having, at best, one of the seven worst defenses in the league.

That makes the Colts an interesting foil. Frank Reich’s squad has maybe the most well-rounded remaining team here. They aren’t necessarily elite in many areas, but their biggest strength is that they don’t have a damning weakness. You can win a lot of playoff games with that trait.

Is Chiefs defense vulnerable?

Indianapolis isn’t all that explosive, doing most of its damage with pass precision and solid red-zone offense, and Kansas City’s extremely flexible (to put it diplomatically) defense should be quite vulnerable to said efficiency. But the Chiefs will score enough to overcome that as long as they’re creating some gashes against the most gash-proof defense in the league and/or continuing their own red zone proficiency.

All about the QBs

This is going to be a quarterback’s game, and that’s exciting. It’ll come down to which passer makes bigger plays under pressure and which offense executes better in the red zone. Can’t wait.

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The Indianapolis Colts play the Kansas City Chiefs in the divisional round on Saturday.
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CBS Sports: Chiefs 34, Colts 24

In order to ensure they're able to run the ball throughout the game and not just early on, however, the Colts have to ensure that they do not get down by multiple scores early in the game. The Chiefs jumped out to a double-digit lead inside the first 20 minutes in nine of their 16 games. They went 8-1 in those games. In the seven where they did not establish a double-digit lead in the first 20 minutes, they went just 4-3.

But keeping pace early is not just about running and taking time off the clock. You have to get some points on the board yourself. And for the Colts, that usually means going to the air. Which means they'll have to protect Andrew Luck against a strong group of Chiefs pass rushers. Chris Jones finished the season with 15.5 sacks and 29 quarterback hits, as well as 71 pressures, which ranked third among defensive tackles. As if it's not difficult enough to deal with him over the middle, there's also Dee Ford (13 sacks, 29 hits, 77 pressures) and Justin Houston (nine sacks, 12 hits, 48 pressures) to deal with on the edge. And Allen Bailey, Derrick Nnadi, Xavier Williams, Breeland Speaks and more come in waves along with them.

Will Patrick Mahomes go deep?...

The Chiefs have elite vertical field stretchers on the perimeter (Tyreek Hill) and over the middle (Travis Kelce) and the Chiefs surround them with several more athletic playmakers, giving them arguably the deepest, most versatile corps of pass-catchers in the league. Hill and Kelce are each elite athletes, and the Chiefs supplement them with Sammy Watkins, Chris Conley, Demarcus Robinson, Spencer Ware, and Damien Williams. Each of those players is some combination of huge, fast, and shifty, or all three. They can all make plays with the ball in their hands, and are comfortable getting it through the air or via hand-off. They can all take a quick screen and make something happen and all of the receivers can get deep.

...If so, good luck to the Colts backfield.

So the Colts' defensive backfield has to not only prevent all these dynamic players from getting open, but be sure to wrap up and tackle as soon as possible once they do. Of course, that's easier said than done. Especially against these guys.

MMQB: Not much faith in Indy

The MMQB staff made their picks for every round of the playoffs last week. Of the 13 staff members who made picks, just one of them -- Mark Mravic -- has the Colts getting past the Chiefs (eight of the 13 had them beating the Texans.) Here's what Mravic had to say about Indianapolis.

In the AFC, the Colts are on a roll at the right time and I see them pulling off a couple upsets on their way to the conference title game—in the Chargers’ soccer-stadium bandbox.

FiveThirtyEight: Chiefs win battle of Patrick Mahomes vs. Andrew Luck

Thanks to a steady dose of all-time greats such as Brady, Peyton Manning, John Elway, Ben Roethlisberger and now Luck, the Chiefs have seldom caught a break by facing a comparatively weak QB at this point in the playoffs. Since 1994-95, only the Jaguars and 49ers have had worse luck in that regard. (Of course, those teams still managed to overcome it and win more often than not, while the Chiefs keep finding ways to lose.) But it’s also worth pointing out that KC has seldom had the superior QB in the matchup, which it does have this year in Mahomes. According to Elo, Mahomes is not only better than Luck, but he has the second-best pregame rating adjustment of any Chiefs playoff starter in a divisional round game since the 1970 merger, trailing only Trent Green from 2003-04 (when Kansas City gained 408 yards — and didn’t punt the ball once — but still lost because the Colts gained even more yards and also didn’t punt.) With a likely MVP under center, the Chiefs are hoping they finally have the ingredient that was missing in those previous postseason disappointments.

Bleacher Report: Chiefs 34, Colts 30

Our divisional-round picks left us with an all-AFC West conference championship, as the Chargers and Chiefs would face off for the third time this season. That's just as well, since their 1-1 regular-season series could use a tiebreaker, anyway.

New York Times: Chiefs win

...from Week 7 forward, Indianapolis allowed the fewest points in the N.F.L. And now, after nearly shutting out the Houston Texans in the wild-card round, the Colts will be asked to prove that their success is not a fluke against the Chiefs, who scored the third-most points in a single N.F.L. season.

The best offense the Colts faced this season was New England’s, and that was during their slow start. In truth, there does not appear to be a way to slow Kansas City. Led by the second-year star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs scored fewer than 30 points only four times this season (and never scored fewer than 26), and were 3-1 in those games.

Sporting News: Chiefs 27, Colts 21

Indianapolis continued its hot streak by picking up its 10th win in 11 games. Andrew Luck was phenomenal as he threw for 222 yards with two touchdowns and one interception, while his offense churned out 200 yards on the ground in a dominating outing.

For the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes has been sensational under center and is favored to win the regular-season MVP award. However, he doesn't have history on his side as a first-year starter making his first playoff appearance. In fact, quarterbacks making their first postseason start dating back to 2013 are 4-11. The Chiefs are also 0-6 in their last six playoff games at home and winless at Arrowhead since 1993.

Still, Mahomes' impressive firepower should be enough to stop the surging Colts.

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Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Matt Kryger/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Before the Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants, they dressed in holiday uniforms at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Matt Kryger/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Matt Kryger/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Before the Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders wear their real world professional work attire as a uniform during the game against the New York Giants, they dressed in holiday uniforms at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar

Mike Florio: Chiefs 30, Colts 27

This one will come down to whether or not the Chiefs defense can stop Andrew Luck, Mike Florio says.

The Chiefs haven’t won a home playoff game since 1993. In fact, they’ve won as many playoff games at Arrowhead Stadium as the Colts have: Two. The problem, as evidenced by various big games lost by the Chiefs this year, is the defense. Can they keep Indy’s offense from not outscoring Patrick Mahomes? That’s where the game will be won or lost. This one could go either way, but I’ll say it will be won by the Chiefs, barely.

Michael David Smith: Chiefs 28, Colts 21

These may be the two hottest teams in the NFL right now. The Colts had a dominant all-around performance against the Texans, and that’s the way they’ve been playing for three months. The Chiefs have been the best offense in the league and one of the best offenses in NFL history all season. If this were in Indianapolis I’d take the Colts to win this game with their stout defense and balanced offense, but I just can’t pick against the Chiefs in Kansas City.

Yardbarker: Chiefs win

Chiefs fans seem to be frightened by this game, though it's unclear if that's due to the team's recent playoff blunders, Andy Reid's playoff history or the Colts. Indianapolis is a formidable foe, winning 10 of its last 11 games, but the Colts haven't beaten a team close to K.C.'s strength during that stretch. In fact, the Colts have had the eighth-easiest schedule, and the Chiefs were the first team in NFL history to score at least 26 points in every game. Andrew Luck will need to score more for the Colts to have any shot, and that's a tough task against an elite pass rush. The possible returns of Sammy Watkins and Eric Berry provide yet another obstacle.